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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAre you still wearing jeans?
I saw this British article saying Brits have decreed age 53 to be the limit for donning denim.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bad-news-jeremy-clarkson-brits-9175615
Yeah, it's kind of silly and arbitrary but it does seem that as folks get older they tend to stray from jeans. Quite a few older fellows I know like the comfort of sweatpants, even if they aren't flattering.
I'm 43 and I have come to prefer khakis and cords to jeans. No sweatpants yet (my go-to workout wear would still be shorts).
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)53 days until I turn 54. You can have my jeans when you pry them off my cold dead body.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)And I am well beyond 53. I wouldn't be caught dead in sweat pants.
rug
(82,333 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I won't be 53 for a very long time but I will still wear jeans until I'm in my 90s. I can't stand wearing khakis. I only wear leggings or yoga pants to workout.
Yonnie3
(17,483 posts)and I'm certainly over 53 years old.
As an aside, I have rediscovered the comfortable and durable bib overalls of my youth. I wear them when I work outside and when I'm repairing gear at the shop.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)I'd walk away from them---but they're so damned comfortable. Part of the secret is finding the brand and style that feels the best---I determined years ago that Levi's just don't suit me. Wrangler boot-cuts? Now you're talking.....
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)And not as a compliment either. I suppose they're right. So what if I like sailor suits jeans at my age?
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)mostly I wear Dockers or cargo pants. I like the cargoes because I've come to appreciate not sitting on my wallet. I used to get bouts of sciatica that I finally traced to sitting on my wallet, it was always that side of my body. Especially bad in the car.
Anyway, I have a couple of pairs of jeans that I wear now and then.
I'm 63.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)So does Mr. froggy and he's almost 74. When we have to dress up, we wear slacks, but then it's back to jeans again.
Here's me 'n' our poodle Ty on my 71st birthday. I was getting ready to pose for a bd picture, and he jumped into my arms. We love him so much!
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)size 6, yes INDEED
lastlib
(23,286 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)you cannot bounce a quarter off my ass, but maybe a dime
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Denim is more than a fashion statement.
And the one way to be sure to establish an American trend, is to tell people they can't do it.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Then it's a granny-flannel nightgown
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)doc03
(35,364 posts)around here still wear them. The only ones wear sweat pants are the ones that can't
fit in normal pants.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)by overwhelming majority vote of Lounge denizens, as decreed by the late, great MiddleFingerMom (God rest his soul!)
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Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)I'll drink to that!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)are both in their 60s, and they wear jeans everyday.
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)I need the extra strong stitches and rivets for work. The belt loops don't break and there is plenty of pocket space. Black, blue and tan denim, at least until I stop working.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Sorry, no pics available!
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)never,Never, NEVER!
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Stopped wearing them during high school. Probably around 1972
Like you, i prefer regular men's slacks by a long shot.
I wear sweat plants for a while for playground basketball, but i quit doing that when i got to the age that it was a knee injury waiting to happen. Then i got MS, so i couldn't do it anyway.
Just never been that big a fan of jeans, but wore them to play baseball and football (and i mean neighborhood stuff).
Didn't even do the whole designer jean thing when it was the fashion